[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 57 (Tuesday, April 2, 2019)]
[House]
[Pages H2943-H2944]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       NAZIS WERE EVIL SOCIALISTS

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair recognizes the gentleman from 
Alabama (Mr. Brooks) for 5 minutes.
  Mr. BROOKS of Alabama. Mr. Speaker, for 75 years, America has been 
the greatest nation in world history. America's standard of living is 
envied by most. America's military is unmatched. America is a beacon of 
freedom for all.
  Unfortunately, America's foundational principles are under attack--
not by a foreign foe, but from within our own country.
  Socialist Democrats oppose the rule of law that is essential to peace 
and prosperity by supporting open border policies that consume hundreds 
of billions in tax dollars and kill tens of thousands of Americans each 
year.
  Socialist Democrats' spending sprees put America $22 trillion in 
debt, thus risking a debilitating national insolvency and bankruptcy.
  Socialist Democrats support dictatorial and guaranteed-to-fail 
socialism over the free enterprise economy that has created our 
prosperity.
  If the Mueller report is accurate, for 2 years, socialist Democrats 
and fake news media allies used the big lie propaganda tactic to 
undermine our elections' legitimacy and falsely accuse President Trump 
of colluding with Russia.
  History's most famous evil and horrific use of big lie tactics is by 
the National Socialist German Workers' Party, or Nazis, for short.
  Not surprisingly, socialist Democrats and their fake news media 
allies recently objected to my quoting Adolf

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Hitler's ``Mein Kampf'' to explain what the big lie propaganda tactic 
is and how horrific the consequences can be for those seduced by it.
  Germany's Socialist Party's big lie killed tens of millions of people 
in the Holocaust and World War II, making it the most horrific and 
deadly big lie in history.
  Also, not surprisingly, today's socialists tried to revise history by 
falsely claiming the Nazis were not socialists. Bunk.
  Mr. Speaker, America can either learn from history or be doomed to 
repeat it.
  By way of background, freedom and liberty are the essence of free 
enterprise, wherein supply and demand market forces determine which 
goods and services are offered and at what prices. Citizens who produce 
goods and services better, faster, or cheaper thrive, and everyone 
benefits from that.

  Conversely, socialism is the mortal enemy of free enterprise. 
Socialist economies reject liberty, freedom, and market forces, 
artificially dictate economic activity, and determine which businesses 
and industries prosper and which do not. In a fully socialist economy, 
government owns and controls all means of production.
  So was Germany's Socialist Party socialists? The founders thought so 
because they called themselves socialists. They certainly acted like 
socialists.
  Germany's Socialist Party's foundational 25 point platform stated, in 
part:
  Plank 13: ``We demand the nationalization of all previous associated 
agencies, trusts.''
  Plank 14: ``We demand a division of profits of all heavy 
industries.''
  Plank 16: ``We demand the . . . immediate communalization of the 
great warehouses.''
  Plank 17: ``We demand a land reform . . . for the free expropriation 
of land for the purposes of public utility.''
  Communalization, land seizure without compensation, nationalization 
and government ownership of industry--those are all socialist policies.
  Further, the German Socialist Party hated capitalism and free 
enterprise. Nazi propaganda posters stated: ``The maintenance of a 
rotten industrial system has nothing do with nationalism. I can love 
Germany and hate capitalism.''
  Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels wrote: ``In the final 
analysis, it would be better for us to go down with Bolshevism than 
live in eternal slavery under capitalism.''
  Mr. Speaker, Germany's socialist Nazis are a heinous example of the 
marriage between big lie propaganda tactics and socialism, but they are 
not alone. Soviet Union and Chinese-style socialism also subjugated or 
exterminated tens of millions of people.
  Mr. Speaker, America must learn from history. Socialism must lose and 
free enterprise must win if America is to remain a free, prosperous, 
and great nation.

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